James W. Ziglar, Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization Service in George W.                                Bush Administration

All Saints launched its Migration Ministry in January. Since then, parishioners have donated over 500 pairs of socks to the No More Deaths humanitarian group to help reduce deaths in the Southwestern US desert; have increased All Saints' financial support of Cristosal's efforts to provide safe places in Central America for families threatened by gang violence in El Salvador; and has established a partnership with the International Institute of New England (IINE) that helps settle official refugees sent to New Hampshire. Aside from a financial contribution to IINE, our partnership has entailed a few visits to the church by groups of refugees on several Sundays, giving parishioners a chance to meet some new Americans that IINE is supporting, and generous donations by parishioners of household goods, furniture, used computers, clothing (through Lord & Tailor), and food (from the Food Pantry). More household and furniture items will be donated on July 15 at the end of the Summer Fair. 

Information on how to make future donations to refugees arriving in NH is contained in a brochure that is available in the Narthex. Notifications and descriptions about the many activities of IINE are available on Facebook and its website www.iine.org.

For those interested in learning about the history of immigration to the US and those with questions about various types of migrants and governmental policies, there will be a special presentation at 11:30am on July 9th in the Stevens Room at All Saints by James W. Ziglar. Jim was the last Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service in the George W. Bush Administration, is on the board of directors of Human Rights First, and formerly was on the boards of the Migration Policy Institute and the National Immigration Forum. He served in other governmental positions as a staff member of the US Senate Judiciary Committee, as clerk to Supreme Court Associate Justice Harry Blackmun, as Assistant Secretary of the US Department of Interior (Reagan Administration), and as Sergeant at Arms of the US Senate. Jim also worked for many years as Managing Director of UBS Financial Services (formerly Paine Webber).